No more Republican scandals

Congress should spend their time on something other than crime in this country, it seems the criminals all get elected to Congress now. There are plenty of bad Democrats. But not every Democrat has $100,000 in their freezer. My distress is that so many of the criminals in Congress are in my party, Republican.

This is my appeal to the Republican party and Republicans thinking of running for public office. If you are like Bob Ney, Duke Cunningham or Tom DeLay and you are after money, we (my fellow Republicans) don't want you. If you have some sexual predilection like Mark Foley or Larry Craig, we (my fellow Republicans) don't want you. If you can't wait to start using earmarks, we (my fellow Republicans) don't want you either.

If you ever want to win another election, you will hold the Democrats on spending money, be swift in winning the war in Iraq and moving on to new terror locations and face up to the Mainstream Media without shame. The voters didn't vote for Democrats because they had a better plan, that is clear. They just didn't want the Republican party in its present state.

-Jeremy

Sally Field is a Fool

During her Emmy acceptance speech last night, Sally Field said that if mothers ruled the world, there would be no war. She won her Emmy portraying a mother. This to me is the epitome of foolishness. She is so ignorant of the Muslim world where not only do mothers themselves strap on bombs and make war on occasion but they are proud of their martyr children that make war against the perceived enemy.

She may never understand that we will only have peace when the rest of the world adopts America's Judeo-Christian values regardless of whether they practice Judaism or Christianity.

-Jeremy

Carbon offsets and other liberal lies

I agree Jeremy. Edwards is a nightmare. He lives in an enormous mansion over 20,000 sf and talks about us being frugal. What an idiot and a hypocrite. I suppose he needs that much space to research poverty. Yeah, to some that actually makes sense. Then there are the so-called carbon offsets so they can feel better about their lifestyle. I actually have no problem with him living as extravagant a lifestyle as he wants. Just don't preach to me about giving up anything. Carbon offsets are literally nothing. They pay windmill companies money to run their clean windmills. While this does add more electricity, it does not replace the "dirty" forms of energy out there. It's the same as the medieval indulgences, where the rich would pay money so they could indulge in sin. My how they've lost their way!!!!

Under Edwards, an apple a day, does not keep the doctor away

I don't know if you heard it this week but Edwards actually said that if elected president, he will create a federal mandate requiring annual physicals. I guess this means we will end up paying double for health insurance because of government waste but it's okay, he will raise your taxes for it.

As much as I don't like Tom Tancredo, I have to hand it to him. He absolutely made the war on terror crystal clear in the Republican debate the other night. So many people to not take terror seriously. They are so isolated in safe old USA.

-Jeremy

My condolences to all you who had to have the iPhone first.

Hillary and Tyranny

Read my title to the tune of "ebony and ivory". Fred Thompson said it well recently, "if government is big enough to give you everything, it is big enough to take away everything". So true!!!!!!! John Edwards wants us to give up our SUV's. Hillary wants to take "corporate profits". Obama wants to try "diplomacy" with murderous thugs. Yeah, it's quite an outstanding crop of leaders the Dems are trotting out there.

-Paul

Hillary for Socialist Ruler of America, er President

After listening to her stump speech over the weekend, it seems that she wants to redistribute wealth and give "you" everything you can't seem to get on your own. I don't know why she hates the rich, she is rich. She seems to think that she can provide healthcare, higher wages, paid education, pre-school for all and of course no service member to ever be outside the US. None of this, of course, is provided for in the constitution. Even if you could make a valid argument for some of these services, they can only be funded by states and not the Federal Government.

Hugh Hewitt played the speech for most of his first two hours and I don't know how I will be able to handle four to eight years of listening to her much less the next year of campaigning. At least President Bill Clinton had a comfortable voice.

-Jeremy

Trader Joe's and the blessings of Liberty

I was at the Grand Opening of the grocery store Trader Joes this morning. Initially, I was skeptical as we waited for the doors to open. I saw all these people so excited, whoopin' and hollerin', and I thought "ok, you people are stereotypical, shallow, consumers. This is just another grocery store". Well, these people had experienced Trader Joe's in California, Arizona, and all over, and they knew what I didn't. I needed only 5 minutes to see how wrong I was. This store was made for people like us who are transitioning to a more whole-food based, organic diet, and the prices are about 30% less than what we normally pay for similar items. This, of course, will not only have a positive ripple effect to our health, but our ability to use our money for other priorities. Economically, it will empower us and give us more choices.

As I shopped for ingredients for my famous fajitas, that I'll be making tonight for some friends, I began thinking about the Garden of Eden. God filled it with abundance, variety, pleasure, comfort, and most importantly..........choices. Almost everything in it was good, but there was one choice that God prohibited. Anytime you have liberty there will be abundance, blessings and choices. Some will lead to life, and others will lead to death. When God restores the world it will become more and more like the original Garden of Eden.

Now, I don't believe America is the Garden of Eden. But our government system values many things that God values. America has chosen freedom, and liberty, and to secure the blessings of liberty we've instituted a free-market, capitalistic economic system. The result is that Americans have more choice and opportunity than anywhere else in the world. Yes, there are dangers to choice. Just like the two trees in the garden, life and death are before us all the time. Do I use my money to buy food for my family, or waste it on lottery tickets? Do I give to charity or use it for mindless entertainment. Many times you can do both, and that's ok. But when you must choose, what do you choose?

The nature of poverty is lack, rationing, and very few choices, all of which are difficult. Do I choose food or medicine; electricity or paying the water bill? It's not good at all. In communist countries there isn't abundance in any form, except misery. People wait on line for hours for one kind of bread, and are rationed how much they can buy. This is not defeated by more rationing. I hear many people that want to fight poverty with poverty. They want to coercively take away resources through taxes, and redistribute it. Poverty is defeated by more freedom, empowerment, choices and opportunities. The greatest liberator for those stuck in poverty is education. The average person with a college education will make over a milliion dollars more, over their lifetime, than a high school graduate. Education empowers, and creates opportunities. It's the parable of the talents. It allows a person to use the giftings God gave them. Education invests in people. The return on investment is a society full of people empowered to create their own destinies. These are the blessings of liberty.